Monthly Archives: July 2023

Entrance: Gather Your People (Hurd) AOV 1/71 Psalm 66 (McKenna) O God, let all the nations praise you. Gifts: Bless Our Gifts (Grant) AOVD Communion: Shepherd Me O God (Haugen) AOV 1/33 Recessional: Though the Mountains May Fall  (Schutte)  AOV … Continue reading →

Entrance: Canticle of the Sun (Haugen) AOV 1/3 Psalm 84 (McKenna) Lord, show us your mercy and love, and grant us your salvation. Gifts: As Gentle As Silence (White) CWB II 580 Communion: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD … Continue reading →

Entrance: Christ be Our Light  (Farrell) AOV 2/3 Psalm 96 (McKenna) The Lord is king, the most high over all the earth. Gifts: All Is Wonder (Watts) AOV NG 4 Communion: Transform Us (Dunstan) PICARDY Recessional: Lord, the Light of Your … Continue reading →

Entrance: Sing a New Song (Schutte) AOV 1/80 Psalm 118 (McKenna) Lord, I love your commands. Lord, I love your commands. Gifts: Blessed Be Our God  (McKenna) AOV NG 13 Communion: Old Treasure, New Treasure (Madden) Recessional: Bring Forth the … Continue reading →

Entrance: Holy Wisdom (Duck) BEACH SPRING Psalm 85 (McKenna) Lord, you are good and forgiving Gifts: Harvest (Grant) AOV Digital Communion: Bread of Life (Farrell) AOV 1/164 Recessional: Send Down the Fire (Haugen) AOV 2/164

I am working through Psalms for All Time, which is now in its second edition as the first volume of a three volume set from Paul Mason. I am working from the the original version and it is an amazing … Continue reading →

This another delightful tune for a psalm setting by Paul Mason from Psalms for All Time. It is the psalm for the first Sunday of Advent Year A, but Mason also notes its use as a seasonal psalm in the … Continue reading →

This is Paul Mason’s setting for this Easter Psalm used at the Vigil and Easter Sunday. He includes the music for the “Alleluia” response as well. If, like me, you are looking at this more as a hymn, it makes … Continue reading →

This is the song that we used at St Peter’s, Rochedale, that alerted me to the (pretty obvious) idea that even if you didn’t have the cantors to use Mason’s psalms as the responsorial psalm, you could use them as … Continue reading →

This psalm is used for Easter Vigil, Pentecost and as an ordinary psalm with the verses varying with each celebration. Paul Mason has provided all the variations in his setting found in Psalms for All Time. The response is singable … Continue reading →